typist
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It’s for any typist in your life, especially millennials nostalgic for the see-through gadgets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
I also became a very fast typist because I was in charge of taking field notes and sometimes I’d have three producers running on-the-fly interviews all at once.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024
Referring to the late British scientist who had motor neurone disease, he added: "Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer. That is the goal."
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024
“I remember my days as a waiter, cleaner, typist, even my time on the unemployment line,” Ms. Streep said in a statement.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
Father didn’t have a lot of people working in his office, just Mr. Kugler, Mr. Kleiman, Miep and a twenty-three-year-old typist named Bep Voskuijl, all of whom were informed of our coming.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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Pen-and-ink clerks who struggled to top 20 words a minute were displaced by typists who could top 60 wpm, especially if they used new touch-typing techniques pioneered by a Cincinnati stenographer, Elizabeth Longley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
This kept an entire pool of court reporters, secretaries, and typists endlessly busy for the duration of the nearly yearlong proceedings.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
By recording the sounds of someone typing on a keyboard while using Zoom, researchers Joshua Harrison, Ehsan Toreini and Maryam Mehrnezhad said they discovered a way to reveal what the typists write.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
“Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress,” Quant once said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023
He could never really remember the names of his clerks and typists.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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